Even before the Bengals held their first team meeting of the season, the NFL stunned them with Thursday's decision to lengthen Odell Thurman's suspension for another year, according to a Bengals press release. He may reapply for reinstatement after the 2007 season.

Thurman had been expecting to be reinstated in time for the start of training camp, which opens Thursday with the Bengals reporting in preparation for Friday's first practice. For the past month, Safarrah Lawson, one of Thurman's representatives, has been saying that Thurman met all the requirements of the league's substance abuse policy.

LOL. they tacked on another year just for him being an idiot i guess. i bet chris henry puked as soon as he heard the news.

poor bunglefans. thats what they get for wishing a suspension on good guy joey porter for performing a community service.

This is the biggest bull**** I've ever seen. Odell Thurman has to sit out 2 years for failing two drug tests? He already served his one year suspension...let him back in the league already.

This is ridiculous...Pac Man paralyzes someone and no telling what else and gets a year suspension. Odell Thurman fails a couple of drug tests and is basically banned for life? And you can't tell me he's done anything worse than Chris Henry.